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Health and Fitness

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Six Hangover Cures (Courtesy of Your Local Bartenders)

    Photo by Samantha Levine"Woohoo!"​ With so many South Florida drinking establishments serving till the wee hours, it's easy to wrap up a seemingly good night, only to wake up with a nasty banging headache that feels like tiny angry elves are hammering away at your temples rudely reminding yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Q & A with John Lenhard, Chef at Sublime in Fort Lauderdale

    Photo by Michele Sandberg​When one of my chefs tells me about a place I just "have to try", I go running. I couldn't wait to speak with John Lenhard, Culinary Team Leader at Sublime in Fort Lauderdale, because my fascination with the vegan lifestyle. I am awed by the ski ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Q & A with Davionne Dobson of Remnant Affairs Catering: Vegan Catering in Fort Lauderdale and South Florida

    flickr: NorwichNutsVegan food can be rich and delicious ​A personal chef is like a life coach for your belly. If it seems like an out-of-reach luxury item, let us introduce you to Davionne Dobson, proprietor of Remnant Affairs Catering. Meals made by the local vegan chef and caterer are a gift of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Gluten-Free Thanksgiving: Q&A With Author of 101 Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes

    Photo courtesy of Stacey Miller​Thanksgiving dinner, with its mounds of stuffing, handfuls of cranberry sauce, and gobs of turkey, sounds absolutely delicious -- doesn't it? But that meal can post a serious threat to celiacs because many of the dishes contain gluten. Stacey Miller, author of ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2010

    A Hallucinogen Called Ibogaine Has Helped Addicts Kick Heroin, Meth, and Everything in Between. Is it the Trip That Does the Trick?

    Photo courtesy of Stacey Miller​Thanksgiving dinner, with its mounds of stuffing, handfuls of cranberry sauce, and gobs of turkey, sounds absolutely delicious -- doesn't it? But that meal can post a serious threat to celiacs because many of the dishes contain gluten. Stacey Miller, author of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Date Set for South Florida Gluten-Free Expo

    ​Many celiacs dream of a day when all gluten-free foods will be in one place, set up for hours of perusal and snacking. The Celiac Disease Foundation of South Florida heard your call again this year.The date for the South Florida Gluten-Free Food Expo has been set for February 19, 2011.Things will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Five Gluten-Free Fast Food Options

    Flickr: dannyrayv​Fast food restaurants still haven't caught on to offering gluten-free options.  P.F. Chang's can coat their lemon chicken in a GF breading, but McDonald's still smothers their nuggets in wheat.That poses a problems to celiacs on the run. But never fear! You may not have a wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Top Five Chain Restaurants With Gluten-Free Menus (Celiacs, Rejoice!)

    Flickr: Bobby VirusCheck out where Legal Sea Foods sits on our list.​If you, like me, are allergic to gluten -- a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye -- you can't eat regular bread, pasta, and cereals. But oh no, it doesn't stop there. Many common food items like spices and hard candy have t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Calvin Williams Murder: Why is AIDS Rate so High for Black Men?

    Calvin Williams was allegedly killed by his lover.​This spring's murder of L.C. Swain Middle School teacher Calvin Williams brought to light a harsh truth about AIDS among African-American men. For many in South Florida, sex on the down-low is a deadly gamble.According to Riviera Beach police repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Former Executive Blew Whistle on E-Cigarette Maker From Weston Now Being Investigated by AG

    FlickrE-cigarettes are in the strange position of suing to prove they're a tobacco product.​A Weston-based company called Smoking Everywhere wanted an executive who could go to battle against the FDA and U.S. Customs, which had teamed up to ban the import of e-cigarettes. But by hiring Ray Story i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Florida Ranked 36th Most Obese State (Tickets to Gun Show Now on Sale)

    Flickr: TobyotterThe obese woman: An endangered Florida species​The seventh annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010" is, first of all, apparently an R as in Real thing. But moreover, the study revealed that Florida's adult obesity rate is 25.1 percent, making us the 36th m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Just What the Doctor Ordered

    Flickr: TobyotterThe obese woman: An endangered Florida species​The seventh annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010" is, first of all, apparently an R as in Real thing. But moreover, the study revealed that Florida's adult obesity rate is 25.1 percent, making us the 36th m ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 22, 2010

    Free Art Classes at 9Muses

    Flickr: TobyotterThe obese woman: An endangered Florida species​The seventh annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010" is, first of all, apparently an R as in Real thing. But moreover, the study revealed that Florida's adult obesity rate is 25.1 percent, making us the 36th m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2010

    Experience the Change

    Flickr: TobyotterThe obese woman: An endangered Florida species​The seventh annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010" is, first of all, apparently an R as in Real thing. But moreover, the study revealed that Florida's adult obesity rate is 25.1 percent, making us the 36th m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Finally - Some Swine Flu Vaccine!

    ​Here's a cut-and-paste press release about where and when you can -- finally -- get the swine flu vaccine. Officials at the Broward County Health Department announced Broward County's first H1N1 Vaccination Clinic which shall be open to all members of the public starting Monday, November 30, 2009 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Death at Weston MedSpa May Bring National Reforms

    Flickr: Romance is alive.At this rate, what next? Do-It-Yourself home liposuction kits?​I know this may come as bad news to the middle-class folks with a jones for cosmetic surgery, but the days of bargain Botox may soon be over. This is the kind of article that politicians tend to clip out, then ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Crist Walks Into Democrat-Laid Health-Care Trap

    ​Everybody's still talking about Crist gaffe-ing (lying?) over the Obama appearance, but this quotable moment is, I think, much more precious. Let's pull out a portion of that Sarasota Herald-Tribune article, which asked for Crist's opinion of a Senate Democrat health care reform package that woul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Lauderdale Dr. Gary Snyder Argues Against Flu Vaccine

    Snyder's home flu repellent: Vitamin D​Historians will look back some day on the autumn of 2009 as a period of mass hysteria over a relatively innocuous strain of flu called H1N1, which so far has killed 1,000 Americans (normal seasonal flu averages 36,000 U.S. deaths per year, according to the CD ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Waiting for Swine Flu Vaccine? Just Skip It.

    Don't want it. Don't need it.​In what may come to be called the Great Swine Flu Fuck-Up, local health officials have vaccinated thousands of schoolkids this year with the regular seasonal flu nasal mist -- a vaccination which unfortunately promises to protect them not at all. The seasonal flu vacc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Sex Ed Group Targets Florida in War Against Abstinence-Only Education

    That's a video from this past April, which gives you some context for the briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill by SIECUS -- the organization that promotes sex education and attacks the abstinence-only curricula that gained momentum during the Bush years.Obama's election brought a halt to that momentu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2009

    Whose Phobia Is It Anyway?

    That's a video from this past April, which gives you some context for the briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill by SIECUS -- the organization that promotes sex education and attacks the abstinence-only curricula that gained momentum during the Bush years.Obama's election brought a halt to that momentu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Planned Parenthood Opens Two New Clinics in Broward to Meet Growing Demand

    Photo by Judith Selzer Planned Parenthood CEO Lillian Tamayo makes it official in Pembroke Pines​Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Bless This Mess: Is Miami-Dade Really Desperate Enough to Copy Broward Health?

    As the bearer of so much bad news for the North Broward Hospital District, we should acknowledge its recent note of favorable publicity. Despite recent scandals about the commissioners' ethics, their district is in far better financial shape than the public health care district in Miami-Dade, Jackso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Cigarette Smokers Burned By New Tax; Cigar Aficionados Blow Celebratory Rings

    flickr.com While cigarette smokers will now pay a dollar per pack more, the legislature gave the cigar industry a break. A new state-wide dollar-per-pack tax on cigarettes and smokeless and pipe tobacco starts today. The stated goal from the legislature is to encourage smokers to stop. If ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Wasserman Schultz Pummeled in Press

    C. StilesDebbie Wasserman SchultzThis time of year, the nation's college football teams stage spring practices, and in a measure to spare quarterbacks from risk of injury, teams dress that player in a red or yellow jersey -- a visual reminder to linebackers that this one player is untouchable. When ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Wasserman Schultz Beats Breast Cancer

    C. StilesWasserman SchultzAround this time one year ago, I was researching an in-depth article on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the fast-rising Democratic congresswoman who represents the West Broward suburbs and still manages to be a minivan-driving soccer mom for her Weston family. I had no idea until ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    The Strange World of Dr. Edison

    Here's a story about some ghosts from the past coming back to haunt Hollywood plastic surgeon Richard B. Edison. A Massachusetts man named Tim Clark has sued the doctor claiming that he sexually assaulted him over a period of two years in the 1970s -- when Edison was in medical s ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    Embattled Plastic Surgeon Richard B. Edison Faces Molestation Charge in Lawsuit

    Here's a story about some ghosts from the past coming back to haunt Hollywood plastic surgeon Richard B. Edison. A Massachusetts man named Tim Clark has sued the doctor claiming that he sexually assaulted him over a period of two years in the 1970s -- when Edison was in medical s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    NFL Tackles Flesh-Eating Infections

    Staph infections sacked these two Pro BowlersLast fall, staph infections were going around the NFL like a bimbo on a broken Ferris wheel. Even Time magazine felt compelled to point out that "a microscopic foe can be much more imposing than a 300-pound lineman"; why, even the indomitable Peyton Manni ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    A Glass a Day

    Staph infections sacked these two Pro BowlersLast fall, staph infections were going around the NFL like a bimbo on a broken Ferris wheel. Even Time magazine felt compelled to point out that "a microscopic foe can be much more imposing than a 300-pound lineman"; why, even the indomitable Peyton Manni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Medical Examiner Perper: Casey the Likely Killer, Jett's Autopsy Flawed

    Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper became a familiar sight on TV after the death of Anna Nicole Smith two years ago, when he was the man overseeing her autopsy.  These days, he's been popping up regularly on Nancy Grace to talk about the death of toddler Caylee Anthony, despite t ... More >>

  • News

    October 16, 2008

    Abstinence education grant renewed for Palm Beach schools

    Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper became a familiar sight on TV after the death of Anna Nicole Smith two years ago, when he was the man overseeing her autopsy.  These days, he's been popping up regularly on Nancy Grace to talk about the death of toddler Caylee Anthony, despite t ... More >>

  • News

    May 22, 2008

    Sobriety in a Bottle

    Is Prometa the greatest innovation in addiction treatment history or 21st-century snake oil?

  • News

    May 8, 2008

    Bleeding Dollars

    A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    Letters for February 14-20, 2008

    A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Simmer Down, Kids!

    Sex-ed teachers want to know: How do you get hormones to listen to reason?

  • News

    January 3, 2008

    Are Hospitals Helping the Homeless?

    Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

  • News

    July 12, 2007

    Doctor G-Spot

    He says he can find it, plump it, and unleash the Big O

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Blood Work

    If you´re a medically uninsured North Broward resident, stay healthy -- or else

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2007

    Hollis Coming Home?

    If you´re a medically uninsured North Broward resident, stay healthy -- or else

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2007

    Happy Food Allergy Awareness Week

    If you´re a medically uninsured North Broward resident, stay healthy -- or else

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2007

    Is "Healthy" Food Healthier than "Fast"? Not Always

    If you´re a medically uninsured North Broward resident, stay healthy -- or else

  • News

    August 31, 2006

    In Cord Blood

    Turning the miracle of birth into the banking of cold, hard cash.

  • News

    March 23, 2006

    Klassified

    From the files of Broward supershrink Joel Klass: The Chicken Lady, the Phantom .38 Killer, and more

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    The Protection Racket

    And the band plays on

  • News

    October 20, 2005

    No Touchy

    Keep Your Blood, Bud

  • News

    August 25, 2005

    The Lice Lady

    At this West Broward medical clinic, nitpicking comes with the territory

  • Nightlife

    May 12, 2005

    Best Place for a Second Date

    Sunrise Health Center

  • Restaurants

    May 12, 2005

    Best Vegetarian Restaurant

    Low Fat No Fat Café

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